Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
Nov 2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing
4.2star
278 reviewsreport
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OVER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
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'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times
'A defining work of memoir' - Sunday Telegraph
'Engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining' - Time
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.
A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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'Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible' - The New York Times Book Review
'Life changing' - Daily Express
'A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self' - Los Angeles Times
'If you read one book, this should be it' - Sun
'Everyone who reads it has a new best friend' - The Times
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OVER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
_________________
'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times
'A defining work of memoir' - Sunday Telegraph
'Engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining' - Time
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.
A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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'Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible' - The New York Times Book Review
'Life changing' - Daily Express
'A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self' - Los Angeles Times
'If you read one book, this should be it' - Sun
'Everyone who reads it has a new best friend' - The Times
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Ratings and reviews
4.2
278 reviews
Lynda Mcallister
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July 3, 2014
It has taken me 4 days to even get to page 83 and I normally devour books but this is just a struggle, I feel nothing for this woman, this book is a total bore, I have never left a book unfinished but this one just went in the bin so some other poor soul won't suffer having to read it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, live your life don't waste time reading hers not worth it x
3 people found this review helpful
Asma Benoun
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October 28, 2014
I live in Italy, bought the book just because of my curiosity, how she found it here, I just started to read the book, hope it's nice, can see from most of reviews, ppl are not so happy about the story. I just started and I will read it all. I'm more or less passing through hard times in my life. Let's see how she managed hers too. I may learn something new, as we live to learn too.
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Winrie Kruger Swanepoel
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May 22, 2019
I first watched the movie and thought what a self indulgent lot of nonsense. The movie cannot begin to share what you can discover is this book. Finding myself in a similar place in life like Liz on the bathroom floor this book is more than a pleasant read, it's a guide.
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About the author
Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 46 languages, and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz
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